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Vocation Office
Western Dominican Province
5890 Birch Court
Oakland, CA 94618-1626
(510)-596-1821
Our Vocations require a great deal of support, from the first moment they begin their novitiate until the last moments of their retirement. Please do conside visiting our donation page and helping form and sustain the priests and brothers who will serve you in the future, serve you now and have served you in the past.
Saints and Blesseds
The Order of Friars Preachers,
The Dominican Order,
has a beautiful history of learning, service and holiness manifested in its saints and blesseds of every age since its foundation by St. Dominic de Guzman. Do enjoy the periodic postings of such stories as are available from various sources, especially our own archives.
Religious Retirement
Our elderly and infirm friars receive the best care we have available to us, as in any family. We rely heavily on the donations of others for our own existence and thus when one of our own becomes incapable of further ministry due to age or infirmity, those same donations help us support the sometimes necessary special care required by such members of our communities.
We prefer to care for our elderly and infirm in our own houses so that the life of a religious community can be a part of a friars life as long as possible. This is also the most economical in many ways. We strive to use donations wisely. But sometimes a care facility is essential. As we, as a Province, do not benefit from the national collection for retired religious, we ask that you assist us in caring for these friars who have prayed, taught, served and ministered for so many years amomg the people of the Western United States and beyond.
Please, in your kindness, consider assisting us in this work of brotherly love.
Many thanks in advance.
Catholicism
It's just the right thing
Fr. Vincent Guagliardo, OP
Words are often left unspoken. Vince's death, so sudden, seems like a conversation cut off in mid-sentence. Friends and family are left behind, confused frustrated saddened by lost opportunities.
But the whole is more than the mere summation of its parts. Each of us is a mixture of the known and unknown. Now Vincent was a very private person. There is much about him we do not know; but we do know Vince was born in Chicago. He attended Loras College in Dubuque, and entered the novitiate for the Central Province in 1964. He was ordained in 1971, and received his Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Union ten years later. He taught at the Dominican School, where he was chair of the philosophy department from 1984 until his death, and served as the school's acting president for six months in 1986.
We also know the Vince who was: a scholar with a well-trained mind; a professor, who would willingly spend hours with any student in need of extra help; a priest who celebrated Sunday liturgies at Travis Air Force Base every week, and then made hospital calls; a priest who helped out every Christmas and Holy Week in the Fresno diocese, hearing hours of confessions and celebrating Mass in mission churches; a sensitive soul who had a great love of beauty, who was dedicated to our gardens, and who used his superb abilities to refurbish furniture; a collector who enjoyed working on his extensive stamp and coin collections; a sub-prior & house treasurer, who spent hours on budgets, thinking of ways to increase house revenues, and exploring the unfamiliar land of stock portfolios. Finally, his was a voice that always supported the underdog, and he would argue for anyone he thought was getting a raw deal.
I guess we do know quite a bit about this private, shy brother of ours.
- Fr. Denis Reilly, O.P.
Donate in honor of Fr. Vincent Guagliardo, OP
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Date of Birth |
Date of Profession |
Date of Ordination |
Date of Death |
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September 14, 1944 |
August 16, 1965 |
May 22, 1971 |
August 13, 1995 |
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